[Lord of the Flies]
Which piece of evidence best supports the idea that dehumanization increases immoral behavior?
“When given an order by someone in authority, people would deliver what they believed to be extreme levels of electrical shock to other study participants who answered questions incorrectly.” (Paragraph 4)
“Bandura found students were more apt to deliver what they believed were increased levels of electrical shock to the other students if they had heard them called ‘animals.’” (Paragraph 8)
“The experiment showed that institutional forces and peer pressure led normal student volunteer guards to disregard the potential harm of their actions on the other student prisoners.” (Paragraph 14)
“‘You don't need a motive,’ Zimbardo said. ‘All you really need is a situation that facilitates moving across that line of good and evil.’” (Paragraph 15)